PMs sent. I always recommend watching the new ultimate editions for the first two entries. They are, in my opinion, the superior viewing.
No idea, friend. I’ve hardly watched anything sequel-releated because they can’t fix the films for me, but if you want something radical I suggest watching something made by someone not doing simple «cut and move/remove» editing. Someone on the forum can probably recommend something more «extreme» for you.
Thank you for the kind words ❤️
I discontinued this project and removed it all due to a total lack of interest in the sequel trilogy followed by no sense of pride in a series of edits that I put too little effort into.
I am sorry.
PMs sent.
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Are you asking me? You can see my review that I posted here on last October.
Right. Confused your name with another user. My bad.
I re-read your review now and thank you once again. I am thrilled when people like this project in paticular, since it’s my passion project. These are the edits I definitely take the longest time to finetune as I want them to be near perfect and exciting for each release.
Very soon. The film is actually done. The only obstacle is that I have one or two things to sort out with FILM IX that need to work within the continuity of the final three films so that nothing ruins the continuity of certain things that will and need to happen in the story.
I hopefully have it sorted out pretty soon.
How did you find the films? You recently watched them I suppose having sent you a PM recently.
The Book of Boba Fett is done, and I changed some things on the way.
It is retained and kept as Boba Fett’s story, with Din Djarin as a side character, and all the plot about Luke, Grogu etc. are kept for The Mandalorian Chapter III.
This honors both their individual stories way better, and gives them both more urgency and meat for their respective storylines.
This has of course forced me to re-arrange and alter existing footage to make it work, but after going down this route and getting my hands on Mandalorian Chapter III I’ve found a satisfactory solution to reunite them without the Book of Boba Fett storyline.
As for Boba Fett’s film, running at 2 hours and 4 minutes, I think i’ve done a decent to very good job at tackeling it as a movie with three arcs. I think it is now captivating, intense - even a slight bit emotional - and I think it really works.
For myself at least, I’ve taken a series I would never return to and made it into a film that I will now for sure watch over and over again with my family.
Haven’t give much thought to what to cut out yet. Focus is mainly on modernization of vfx and color grading atm.
The audience (first-time viewers) will have a hard time accepting that Anakin has killed younglings when it is not shown, which will benefit the film’s increasing tension at this point. It will add an extra element of unconfirmed horror - the good ol’ The shark is scarier when you don’t see it.
And then, you could, for the ultimate WTF gutpunch moment, show brief glimpses of the Youngling’s deaths / murders when Padme confront Anakin at Mustafar: “Obi-Wan told me… you were killing younglings”. Anakin reflecting on a closeup, then BOOM - horrific, short flashback glimpses, some swelling horrific soundwork, followed by back to present and a conflicted, but firm, “Don’t listen to Obi-Wan” from Anakin. The ultimate confirmation that Anakin has gone totally bonkers and is beyond redemption.
The stakes are at an ultimate high right before the choking of Padme and the ultimate duel of the fates, and the “Anakin… you’re breaking my heart” hits on a different level.
In this paticular instance I think it could benefit the story.
Jesus dude, you don’t need to be an ass about it. I’m not just trying to silence any criticism, I have plenty of problems with Disney’s current output. It just seems like Disney Star Wars has been a never ending cycle of schadenfreude for you.
It’s one thing to complain about getting stomach flu from a restaurant, it’s a whole other thing to keep going back to that restaurant even after getting stomach flu there numerous times. And the latter is what you seem to be doing.
Did you even read my latest post right up above your educational biography? I praise where due, and I criticize where due. If you don’t like that then I’m not going to apologize.
You seem to have targeted me out of the blue among many voiced opinions in here because… what? You don’t like my analysis?
Thank you, Starkiller, for educating me. I will now live my life in utter silence and pick better things on the sushi buffet. And if I get a stomach flu, instead of complaining to the restaurant owner, I’ll just say to him; “No worries, mate. I won’t criticize your horrible food or health proceedures! I will just go to another sushi restaurant the next time. The one across the street is brilliant actually.”
The world will now become a better place.
Streamable has shit 720p cap so can’t do much about the video quality. I can upload a high bitrate to Google Drive for those who want.
People can do what they want with it. Can upload one with and without music. This was made for those who didn’t have the skill and/or time to put it together themselfs.
As for the deepfake, if it doesn’t work it doesn’t work. 😃
To be fair, I have and will release two versions. So you can literally choose your ending.
The original plan was to have her die to give Season 8/last film some urgency and high stakes, but since the Jon Snow show will come out I don’t want to ruin the continuity.
I can “spoiler-Warning” say that one character will die tho, in the upcoming film. But that’ll be for release.
Wasn’t it so, that he makes ANHR:HD and ROTJR:HD more or less simultaneously?
And that they will be released at the same time respectively shortly one after another?
He must release it when we demand, or we will cast him out! He has been warned in PM.
The clip with more finetuned foley:
https://streamable.com/nf9lw0 (No Obi-Wan deepfake here)
And since so many dislike Obi-Wan’s “aged” appearance (although I don’t mind, since AotC aged Ewan McGregor up with prosthetics and makeup), here’s the Obi-Wan deepfake:
Bear in mind that Ewan McGregor did some prosthetics work to appear older in the Prequels, so he has different appearance of his eyebrows. I think I struck a balance here tho, merging the deepfake and the original part. The deepfake alone made his face significantly different from his original, more aged appearance.
Only did the 3-4 first shots of Obi-Wan since it’s so time consuming. If it’s good enough, I can probably do the whole schtick. At least the necessary shots. Many of the dueling close-ups with blue glow are definitely not necessary and will be a nightmare anyway.
The sad thing, in all honesty, is that we know Disney have both the funds and the talent to create amazing, beautiful things. Like some of the best Star Wars we could possibly imagine. It’s easy to forget all this when we vent out our immense frustration, which is completely warranted by the way, but it’s clear that with all the brilliant directors, writers, actors and who knows what they don’t have at their disposal they are still so disconnected from the fans and not in any way, shape or form willing to take a failure on the chin and move on to something better with the criticism in mind.
Instead, they fight back… thinking they’re doing it for any other than their own pride.
It’s a difference between criticism, and abuse. They label it all as the latter. “And that, is why you fail…”
Let’s hope for better Star Wars content in the future. ❤️
I haven’t gotten the time to finetune all the foley and audio levels, and I threw this together while watching Champions League (xDDD), so feel free to give feedback if you want the 5.1 mp4 file and some changes made to it.
General list of changes (used snooker’s music-free stereo track for the center channel):
Picture for reference: https://media.doblu.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Star-Wars-Attack-of-the-Clones.mkv_snapshot_00.07.11_2020.04.08_14.19.26-scaled.jpg
Oh, and Streamable has compressed it to a stereo file so some of the background ambience might be/is louder than in the 5.1 surround file.
To be fair, I don’t think moving on is the bigger issue for people here. I think we’re used to that and I myself find that fairly easy.
The bigger issue is that the fans of this beloved franchise ARE moving on, rather than playing along. Now that is where the true worry is, for both fans and creators.
I can take a crack at this using Snooker’s clean stereo. Got a lot of foley sounds in my library and am bored.
Give me an hour or two.
I completely agree with you, WitchDR. Perfectly illustrated points.
Just for my own personal analysis of what Star Wars Disney has given me these last years and what they’ve made me feel besides anger was Luke’s return in the Season 2 finale of The Mandalorian and Han’s death in The Force Awakens. The other instances were Leia’s death in a fanedit by, I think, Spencer. And Hal9000’s Force Ghosts at the end of his edit. The reason I’m saying this is that I find it totally and utterly crazy that the only time Disney Star Wars has hit me in the feels is two times in eight years. The other times has been through f*kin’ fanedits due to Disney’s bad execution of their own story points and the emotional weight of them.
They surely lack the bridge between their own vision of what Star Wars is and should be and the fans’s, when they can’t stick a landing for the life of them. It’s a complete and utter mess.
They had ONE good live-action property that the masses care(d) about - ONE! And it was The Mandalorian. They messed up everything else! Everything! Now their viewerships numbers are in the bin compared to the last two seasons, and The Mandalorian is a redundant sidekick of a mess in his own series.
Hello, brother. Nice to hear from you again.
As a non-english-speaking fella’ myself I feel you. I’ve watched films with subtitles all my life, so I wish it would take me a few mere seconds. Unfortunately, the only way I’ve found to create subtitles take forever and it’s patience work beyond belief.
I can look for better solutions and try to create some subtitles soon.
Oh dear.
The thing is that no one wanted to see Luke dead in the first place, and definitely not to be replaced by Rey - a character few have grown to care for and a character we’ve not seen struggle for her achieved triumphs. It’s like sacrificing your house to buy a motorbike. It just doesn’t hold the same value to most people and will always be considered a very bad choice that people can’t fathom.
Having Luke around will only be to get the bank bucks from “The Politically-Evil Spirited Sequel Haters” and we all know it. It will hardly be satisfactory either having a beloved character that raised million of children as a blue force orb trying to teach Rey a lesson or two for the THIRD film in a row. Some people will go to the cinema and watch it, others will wait for stream - and I suspect a large amount of the fanbase here and elsewhere will torrent it in pure disdain and hatred. Either way, It’s going to make money and it’s going to be canon.
Until the day they either sell or replace the majoritfy of their staff, this is what we’re going to get and we’ll just have to bend over and either close our eyes or try to enjoy it.
Thank the maker we have brilliant faneditors that can salvage things from The Sequels for people who want to give them a new chance.
The word “objectively” in film criticism is baffling. People do realize story and character tropes that we call “good writing” are designed strictly to evoke emotional reactions out of people? “Good” dependents on whether it evoked the right emotional reaction out of people. And emotional reactions are subjective. The very nature of judging film is subjective.
The only way you can use “objectively” in film criticism is if you’re describing what straight up does and doesn’t happen. Like, someone would be objectively wrong to say Darth Vader never sits down in the OT.
No, I agree as much as I disagree here. I still go back to my metaphor: If a bike is not built properly and therefore not working as a bike, but it gives some people amusement, is it subjectivly a good bike or objectively a bad bike? In essence, it’s not OBJECTIVELY working as a bike, but it works subjectively for some as entertainment or fun.
I’m not disregarding opinion, I’m questioning if the trilogy is structurally flawed in it’s connective tissue in a subjective versus factual manner.
Definition of a trilogy:
Objectively the three films are connected AND disconnected, as they also work AGAINST eachother’s established characters, plot developments and future goals; making one to the other redundant or outright breaking the connection with the previous in many aspects of the “connective” tissue. A case could be made for both I suppose, because you could argue that they are “connected because they have the same characters in them and they share similar ideas”. But if the film trilogy also break with its own connected material and fights itself in its overall execution, does that not also go against the connection established and built? Rendering most of it, if not all, completely useless as a trilogy built on connection - CONNECTING WITH EACHOTHER, when they are in fact, in many regards, fighting eachother (just like it’s director’s differing views and execution)? But as of now, tired as fuck as I am (4 am here), I will stand by this. Perhaps I’m overthinking. Perhaps I’m underthinking it. Perhaps I just wanted some action before I went to bed. Who knows? I might be a Sith Lord after all. Or the Jedi to save Grogu.
Either way, may the force be with Disney because they need it more than us.
Good night ❤️
Saying “Objectively bad” immediately discredits any criticisms, IMHO. Especially since “objectively bad” is such a thoroughly reactionary thing to say.
Perhaps. Perhaps not. Perhaps objectivity is just as subjective as everything else now. It’s 2023 after all, and opinions are far more important than facts. I suppose a broken radio would still be considered subjectivly a good radio these days, if enough people put their minds to it.
Either way, if you analyze what I wrote one more time I think you will understand my arguement better. I might be wrong, but I think it’s a great arguement for why I think I’m right. So there’s that.
